After that that, I've sorta found my niche, working on a particular original fiction trilogy with sidestories that was greatly inspired by Sailor Nothing along with a very long, but high-quality Sailor Moon story titled Absence. The fact that the latter shipped Rei and Usagi didn't hurt at all.

I initially found out about this place one lazy day in high school when stumbling on the Load-Bearing Boss page... can't remember the details why. Has since kicked around ideas on the YKTTW with all save one floundering, created the B't X page and contributed to many others.

Winx Club (A Guilty Pleasure if ever there was one... and in spite of disliking the show and nearly everything about it with a fiery passion, is perfectly at home and well-liked on a Winx forum and gets along just fine with the actual fans)

I also do a lot of writing, although I have more than a healthy portion of old shames I'd rather fade away. But I'll probably never take them down.

Anyways, parts one and two, Matei Mizuki and Ai no Saori, along with sidestories Maoh Soma and Jigoku no Keston are completed, with the final story Shin Minako nearing the halfway point. Admittedly, the series does start with many aspects similar to Sailor Nothing, it grows into something entirely different.

Tropes Associated in my current works:

Action Girl: Pretty much all the female protagonists in some way or another. Currently the only Action Guys though are Keston, Fudoh, Johan, and Ikki.

Big Bad: Three of them. All of them with a plot twist. Matei Mizuki'sBig Bad is the leader of the Shiko, Matei Syn is actually fighting against them, and the REALBig Bad is Loretta Brauner, the physical embodiment of Destiny.Ai no Saori'sBig Bad is Megami Sato who turns out to be Midori Ai, the older sister to Anser's human counterpart.Shin Minako's is Mio Yui.

Dark Is Not Evil: A very, very big one. However, sometimes inverted. Similarly...

Light Is Not Good: Some beings of light are good, some are bad. It's not called the "Dichotomy" series for nothing.

Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Time and time again. Horoki, Asuka, and Akane defeat Matei Jun, admittedly only because she threw the fight but they still destroyed a substitute body of hers. Mizuki kills Destiny, driving it to the point its body can't live, it doesn't think it can live, and it doesn't even feel it has the right to live. Saori overwhelms and eventually kills someone who could simply "lock" her existence in place so she shouldn't be able to be harmed at all.

Evil Gives You Wings: The stronger villains occasionally spread open their wings. May or may not get ripped off.

Face-Heel Turn: Shot at the start of Shin Minako. Atha seems to do this in chapter 8, but she was just trying to get a swing at Seito.

Heel-Face Turn: Quite a few. Natassia/Genbu in the penultimate chapter of Matei Mizuki, Iris/Ayame in Ai no Saori, and Shot after working for Mio in Shin Minako.

Load-Bearing Boss: an important plot point and then averted in the Syn's Castle arc. With Syn having not awoken yet, Mizuki, Minako, and Loretta attempted to seal away the power of the Shiko by destroying Syn's castle. The only way that was possible by killing both of its Stewards. Turns out that doesn't work.

Important Haircut: A few. Asuka after Suzaku kills her family and she starts living with Mizuki, Giselle between Ai no Saori and Shin Minako.

Improbable Weapon User: Asuka fights with a magatama. Giselle fights with a kendama. Justified trope in both cases, the jewel is the Yasakani Magatama. The kendama was deliberately made to be a killing instrument.

Katanas Are Just Evil: a rule in the series is that if someone uses a katana, they are a villain. No exceptions.

Mama Bear: If you don't want a sadistic Saori trying to kill you, do not hurt Anser. A few characters attempt to, all of them die.

Mighty Glacier: Mizuki Freaking Rajoshin. Taller than some adult Japanese men with a body conditioned by being a miko. Controls the most powerful force in existence when it comes to defense, and it's not too shabby at offense either.

Romantic Runner-Up: Subverted with Soma. He's very close to Minako and they're very good friends, but they mention they actually had gone out dating in the past and they realized they didn't want to sacrifice what they already had and went back to just being friends.

Samus is a Girl: the thirteenth Candidate is really Soma, a guy. Some people are very surprised by this.

Split Personality Merge: this doesn't happen. Saori can stop whenever she wants, and eventually does because she gets tired of it and the stress is too much. she almost takes it up again after she finds out Eri is Kai-Gara.

Take That: has included a few of these, usually by way of a deconstructing aspects of certain stories or characters.

There Can Be Only One: Averted when it comes to Syn's Candidates. They don't have to fight each other, but the death of the most worthy of being Syn causes the next most worthy to be marked as her reincarnation.

The Dragon: So far, Seiryuu/ Yoko in Mizuki and Kai-Gara/ Eri in Saori.

The Smurfette Principle: Inverted. In Matei Mizuki there were only two important male characters, Mizuki's grandfather Kouji and Soma. Kouji is usually absent from the story and Soma was a Non-Action Guy. In Ai no Saori, there were a few more male characters who played a more important role to the plot, such as Keston, who is nearing Action Guy status very quickly and will play a large role in the story of Shin Minako.

You Are The Demons: Mizuki and Minako discover early on that Mizuki is the reincarnation of the Demon Empress Syn, the leader of the enemies they're fighting. Then they discover that there's more potential "Candidates", thirteen in total.

Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: Averted. Although a lot of action takes place at M— University in Mizuki and then at L++ in Saori, there is not much energy or focus put into the sections dealing with school. In both cases, the freaky goings-on eventually cause school to get put on indefinite hold.

What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Subverted. Basic ideas like controlling the elements can be very dangerous, but it's the more specialized abilities such as those of the villains like Kai-Gara that prove the most dangerous.

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